Jennifer Aniston was left in tears during a chat about the enduring impact of Friends nearly 30 years on from its debut.
The TV star, famed for her role as Rachel Green, couldn’t hold back the waterworks on Variety’s Actors On Actors YouTube series while talking to Abbott Elementary’s Quinta Brunson.
“Oh, god, don’t make me cry,” she blurted out when an off-camera voice prompted Brunson, 34, to quiz Aniston on the iconic show. Brunson quickly offered support, assuring they could skip the topic, as Aniston dabbed at her eyes with a tissue.
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“Sorry, I just started thinking about … I’m okay, it’s happy tears,” Aniston managed to say. This emotional moment follows the tragic loss of Friends co-star Matthew Perry, who was discovered lifeless in his pool on October 28 last year and was declared dead at 54, reports the Mirror.
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His passing was deemed accidental due to the acute effects of ketamine, but the Los Angeles Police Department has since disclosed that there’s an “open investigation” into his death. Perry, candid about his struggles with addiction, had founded a sober living home for men facing similar battles.
In Friends, he portrayed the quick-witted Chandler Bing alongside Courteney Cox as his TV wife Monica Geller, David Schwimmer as her brother Ross Geller, and Lisa Kudrow and Matt LeBlanc as Phoebe Buffay and Joey Tribbiani.
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“It’s so strange to even think that it’s 30 years old,” Aniston said, referencing the first episode of the show which aired in 1994. “I remember the day that it was going to premiere on television, on NBC. Me and Matthew Perry were having lunch somewhere, and we knew Lisa was getting her hair coloured.”
“So we ran into the hair salon, and I snuck up – she was in the sink hair bowl – and I took the nozzle from the guy that was supposed to be doing it and just started washing her hair.”
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“It definitely flew out of control, and that was unfortunate. But the excitement we had, and it feels like yesterday. The fact that its had this long, wonderful life and it still means a lot to people is one of the greatest gifts I think all five of us – all six of us – we never could imagine.”
Aniston said she spoke to Cox on FaceTime for an hour the night before the interview, and regularly sees Kudrow “and the boys”. “It’s a family forever,” the 55 year old added.
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